The *other* co-founder of Oceangate wants you to get in a rocket to Venus.
, a research group bent on creating a colony that floats above the uber-hot planet's surface and that he says, by 2050, will be home to 1,000 people.
As hostile as the depths of the ocean are, Venus just might be worse. Though the planet has at times been referred to as "Earth's twin,"that its thick sulfuric atmosphere — the same one that Söhnlein wants to cram a colony into — traps heat in a "runaway greenhouse effect," which leads to surface temperatures of a whopping 900 degrees Fahrenheit. If Venus is our twin, it's the evil one.
It's unclear, for now, what exact technological breakthroughs Söhnlein and Humans2Venus expect to bring forth in the next 27-odd years that would allow for a spaceship colony that could withstand theThose matters, however, seem to also be outside his grand vision — and as for the late OceanGate CEO, Söhnlein appears to have nothing but admiration., "we'd probably all still be in caves.
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